A group of Year 5 and 6 students met with Mrs Templeton to explore drama. We found out about the 6C’s: Communication, Cooperation, Confidence, Creativity, Clarity and Compromise. We learnt some drama words • Accepting verbal and physical offers • Actors • Audience • Blocking • Body language • Bow • Break • Characters • Chorus: people doing actions and sounds together • Communication • Compromise • Confidence • Convention • Cooperation • Creativity • Facial expressions • Focus • Gibberish • Improvise • Justification • Mime • Performance • Physical offers • Pitch • Presentation • Projection • Props • Scripts • Set the scene • Speak clearly • Speaking thoughts aloud • Spontaneous • Staying in character/ staying in role • Story telling • Taking a risk • Team work • Trust • Verbal offers We learnt some drama conventions. • Freeze frame • Freeze frame and slow motion replay. • Gibberish • Hot seating • Improvisation • Mime • Process drama • Role on the wall • Story retell • Theatre in the round • Verbal collage Favourite Drama Games we can use back in class • Arms • Chinese Whispers • Freeze tag • Machines • One word at a time • Pass the clap • Point and Name • Props • Shark attack • Where do you come from? What do you do? • Wombletoms Some lines from Mrs Templeton “Set up the relationship, find the problem, then work at resolving it.” “ I’m looking for excellent facial expressions and staying in character.” “I’ll count you in … 5,4,3,2,1 and freeze.” “Getting into your image.” “Excellent commitment to character.” “That’s it, keep supporting her, well done.” “Well done, on the ball.” “And relax.”
A group of Year 5 and 6 students met with Mrs Templeton to explore drama.
We found out about the 6C’s: Communication, Cooperation, Confidence, Creativity, Clarity and Compromise.
We learnt some drama words
• Accepting verbal and physical offers
• Actors
• Audience
• Blocking
• Body language
• Bow
• Break
• Characters
• Chorus: people doing actions and sounds together
• Communication
• Compromise
• Confidence
• Convention
• Cooperation
• Creativity
• Facial expressions
• Focus
• Gibberish
• Improvise
• Justification
• Mime
• Performance
• Physical offers
• Pitch
• Presentation
• Projection
• Props
• Scripts
• Set the scene
• Speak clearly
• Speaking thoughts aloud
• Spontaneous
• Staying in character/ staying in role
• Story telling
• Taking a risk
• Team work
• Trust
• Verbal offers
We learnt some drama conventions.
• Freeze frame
• Freeze frame and slow motion replay.
• Gibberish
• Hot seating
• Improvisation
• Mime
• Process drama
• Role on the wall
• Story retell
• Theatre in the round
• Verbal collage
Favourite Drama Games we can use back in class
• Arms
• Chinese Whispers
• Freeze tag
• Machines
• One word at a time
• Pass the clap
• Point and Name
• Props
• Shark attack
• Where do you come from? What do you do?
• Wombletoms
Some lines from Mrs Templeton
“Set up the relationship, find the problem, then work at resolving it.”
“ I’m looking for excellent facial expressions and staying in character.”
“I’ll count you in … 5,4,3,2,1 and freeze.”
“Getting into your image.”
“Excellent commitment to character.”
“That’s it, keep supporting her, well done.”
“Well done, on the ball.”
“And relax.”
If you are interested in going to drama classes here are some contacts.
http://www.invercargillrepertory.co.nz/youth-drama/4
http://www.activeactivities.co.nz/directory/category/performing-arts/drama/drama-classes-lessons/location/southland-region/invercargill/
http://www.speechnz.co.nz/syllabus/speech-and-drama/
When you leave high school you might go to one of these places to study drama.
http://www.otago.ac.nz/theatrestudies/study/
http://www.toiwhakaari.ac.nz/about/
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/study/programmes-courses/subjects/theatre
http://www.sit.ac.nz/courses/Dramatic-Arts/campus/Invercargill